Second City Cop is juxtaposing two situations in which authority figures called those they are faced with “animals.” | Facebook/ Second City Cop
Second City Cop is juxtaposing two situations in which authority figures called those they are faced with “animals.” | Facebook/ Second City Cop
Second City Cop is juxtaposing two situations in which authority figures called those they are faced with “animals.”
In a Cook County court, recently a judge said a group of defendants acted “in a herd mentality.” Second City Cop said the statement comes as a police officer was recommended for suspension by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) for telling people to stop acting like animals.
“Interesting choice of words by the judge...... A police officer told people to calm down and to stop acting like animals at an extremely chaotic scene and now COPA wants to suspend the officer for 365 days w/o pay,” Second City Cop posted on Twitter following CWBChicago's post on recent crimes.
According to CWBChicago, a Cook County judge recently said a group of robbers was arrested after executing a string of alleged serial crimes including instances of armed robbery with a firearm, other robbery charges, and felony gun charges. The judge noted the group acted “as an animal surrounds its prey … in a herd mentality.” The four men accused of the crimes allegedly used an increasingly common tactic of waiting in a car for potential victims and then swarming them.
“100% correct-fact-not a typo Exactly," Second City Cop added. They can all go eff themselves.”
Respondents to the post noted police should strike until the politicization of COPA. “Copa is the reason why the city will continue to suffer…. You cannot get the CPD to do their job bc they know copa will try to fire them… copa is an activism agency…. If they were fair impartial and honest no policemen would care for an oversight…. But they're not,” Twitter user DefenderoftheFlag1776 said. “Every officer who is suspended from an overly zealous COPA investigation only to have that suspension overturned or significantly reduced after it's realized the investigation/investigator was biased & unfair should file an EEOC hostile work complaint and think civil suit as well,” Twitter user Stopfor2 noted.
Recently COPA recommended the suspension of 12 out of the 23 Chicago police officers implicated in the 2020 George Floyd riots, the Chicago Sun-Times said in its updated report. The officers were suspended for alleged misconduct during the melee. Police on the scene during the riots called the environment “hostile” and “insane.” At least one officer at the time was recommended for termination for calling people "animals" among other derogatory remarks.
COPA infamously recommended a three-day posthumous suspension for Chicago police officers Ella French. She was killed during an investigation. The suspension after her death caused uproar in the police community and caused a retreat by COPA. In the wake of the suspension announcement Andrea Kersten, the acting head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, apologized to French’s family. “There is truly no greater act of service than laying down one’s life for the City they serve as Officer French did. She is to be honored and remembered as a hero,” Kersten said, according to NBC5. “I have profound regret and sadness that the work of our agency has in any way hurt the French family,” Kersten added, “and those who mourn her and I will work steadfastly to ensure that a situation such as this never happens again.”
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